Northeast FYSPRT

Dedicated to Improving Children and Youth’s Behavioral Health Services and Support

The mission of Washington State’s ten Regional Family, Youth, and System Partner Round Tables (FYSPRTs) is to bring all necessary parties together to contribute to continuous improvement to children’s behavioral health services and supports. Regional FYSPRTs strive to provide an equitable forum for families, youth, systems, and communities to strengthen and sustain community resources that effectively address the individualized behavioral health needs of children, youth and families.

Regional FYSPRTs play a critical role, within the Children’s Behavioral Health Governance Structure, in informing and providing oversight for high-level policy-making, program planning, and decision-making, and for the implementation of the T.R. Settlement Agreement.

As described further, Regional FYSPRTs will:

Convene a broad array of stakeholders to collect, review, and/or interpret relevant data and evaluation results and develop system improvement strategies
Serve as a mechanism for bringing voices from local communities into one regional entity
Respond to calls for feedback from higher level entities such as the Statewide FYSPRT, relevant state agencies, and the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Work Group (CYBHWG) that provides recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature to improve behavioral health services and strategies for children, youth, young adults, and their families.
Regularly develop formal reports (e.g., regional needs assessments) for review by higher-level entities who can then act accordingly through policy, fiscal, regulatory, and other actions
Receive regular reports from higher-level entities on priorities for action and policy, fiscal, regulatory, and other actions taken in response to input from the regions

Our Vision for the Roundtable

The FYSPRT vision is that, through respectful partnerships, families, youth, systems and communities will effectively collaborate to proactively influence, and provide leadership to address challenges and barriers faced by the behavioral health service system for children, youth and families in Washington State.